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Old 07-10-2014, 09:42 PM   #57
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom View Post
How do you know the higher prices are going to the authors?
I don't know for sure, but its highly likely. If a company has more money, it highly likely that all stakeholders benefit a bit. Look how much manufacturing wages have increases in China while high-profit-margin US tech companies send them more and more big orders.

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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom View Post
That is certainly not the way it has been with ebooks.
I don't know how we can be certain, since average advances aren't published, and royalty rates don't impact most big-published authors. But what you are saying here is plausible.

Because of eBooks, I think that average book prices have declined, especially during the first couple of months after release. eBook pricing may be also a factor in the relative stagnation of hardcover prices. This likely explains much of the decline in advances, the other big factor being the mini-depression we still have not quite come out of.

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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
And regardless, how does that translate to Amazon being evil, which is not a concept inherent in the nature of having leverage in business deals? There is only one source for that -- publishers.
I don't think Amazon is evil, but if you google the terms:

Amazon evil

the great majority of the results are not coming from publishers.

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Originally Posted by Barcey View Post
Really? How do you legally resell a license to an ebook without a contract?
However Amazon does it. AnemicOak suggested in #39 that maybe the "old contract may have some kind of provision in it to have them able to keep selling them on the same terms for a period of time . . . " Or maybe Amazon has a contract with a wholesaler. Or maybe they have a series of purchase orders. Or maybe there is a verbal agreement. Or maybe they are selling Hachette eBooks illegally, but I doubt it.

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